SusCritMat aims to educate people from Master’s student level up, both in industry and academia about important aspects of Sustainable critical raw materials. In a novel concept, it introduces courses on these complex and interdisciplinary topics in a modula structure, adaptable to a variety of different formats and accessible to both students and managers in industry. In this context, last January, the first SusCritMat Winter School gave its participants the opportunity to discuss and work with experts from various fields. They did not only learn new things about sustainability aspects, but also enlarged their professional network. Like the other SusCritMat schools which are yet to come, the Winter School responded […]

Visit the Symposium on Availability of raw materials from secondary sources and the Special Workshop on Waste Valorization and Critical Raw Materials on April 24 at the UNECE Resource Management Week: https://www.unece.org/index.php?id=47092

One of the lectures held at the SusCritMat Winter School in Les Diablerets in January is now available for free download: BRGM’s introduction to Criticality by Dominque Guyonnet and Gaëtan Levebre as well as the associated hands-on exercise.

This April, ESM Foundation will co-host this symposium as part of the UNECE Resource Management Week 2018. It reflects on the future availability of secondary raw materials and the need for a unifying global standard – the United Nations Framework Classification (UNFC) – to manage anthropogenic resources in a circular economy, with special reference to valorizing wastes for the recovery of Critical Raw Materials.

ESM Foundation is providing support for research projects on different levels that conduct, in accordance with the Foundation’s charter, “research and investigations in the field of rare metals with a view on their industrial application”. For further information about the fields we would like to promote, see here.

In April 2016, ESM, MatSearch Consulting Hofmann, Empa and Life Cycle Consulting Althaus, supported by SATW, organized a Workshop on the topic “Data network for critical Materials”. You can find further information and the newly published English language brochure here.

A new joint press release is available about the workshop on „Strategic Raw Materials and Sustainable Development” held at the World Resources Forum 2017 and organized by ESM Foundation, EIT Raw Materials and UNECE.